His verdict on the doctrine of a God is only that it is not proven; it is not, that it is disproven.

He is but an Atheist: he is not an Anti-theist." Mr.Holyoake can scarcely fail to recognize in these words a correct and graphic delineation of his own position and sentiments.

Now, says Dr.
Chalmers, "there is a certain _duteous_ movement which the mind _ought_ to take, on the bare suggestion that a God _may be_....

The certainty of an actual God binds over to certain distinct and most undoubted proprieties.

But so also may the imagination of a possible God; in which case, the very idea of a God, even in its most hypothetical form, might lay a _responsibility even upon Atheists_....